Donks Make Me Itch
....and as our cat, S'Mores, would say (She talks; just ask my daughter), I've just got to scratch 'em.
***Harry Reid's idea of earmark reform is to generate a crapload more of them than the Republicans ever did, and then bury them down a PR black hole. Proving, once again, that even if by some random mischance the Democrat Party ever does something upright and worthwhile, they'll still be incapable of doing it honestly.
***Yesterday House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (USSR-Michigan) convened a hearing for no other purpose than to sodomize President Bush for nullifying political prisoner Lewis "Scooter" Libby's two and a half year jail sentence. It, as you might have suspected, cut Bill Clinton a blanket pass for his flurry of clemencies and pardons of crooks, rapists, cronies, and terrorists. The production even featured none other than "Yellowcake Joe" Wilson (aka Mr. Plame) himself.
The only noteworthy development to arise from this BS exercise was the call by Donk freshman Stephen Cohen for a constitutional amendment taking away the President's pardon power. But only when a Republican is in office, of course.
***"Snarlin' Arlen" Specter, the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is outraged - OUTRAGED! - that Committee Chairman Pat "Leaky" Leahy screwed him over on the promise Leahy made to Specter to process the nomination of Leslie Southwick to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He's so pissed that he's actually trying to rally conservative activists to his side.
Cry me a river, Senator. Where have you been as the Dems have tried to smear Judge Southwick as a racist and a homophobe? Playing cloakroom tonsil hockey with your "esteemed colleague" and "good, close, personal friends" on the other side of the aisle.
Specter isn't a righteously indignant constitutionalist, he's a jilted lover in a "mixed" relationship. When conservative activists do heed Specter's call, they should target his ass as well.
***Joe Lieberman is never - EVER - going to switch parties. The chances of him being a Jim Jeffords in reverse are slightly less than Britney Speares enrolling in a convent.
Key comment in his Hugh Hewitt radio program interview:
But if the leadership changed, these detestable surrender bills wouldn't see the light of day in the first place. Republicans suck at advancing the conservative agenda, but they're at least decent at blocking the other side, particularly on this core of an issue.
Lieberman's answer makes me wonder just how sincere his claim to be Scoop Jackson's political heir really is.
***In an interview on the Ed Schultz Show, whoever the hell he is, Senator Babsy Boxer actually said this:
As a historical illiterate, Boxer probably isn't aware of the post-Revolutionary War near-uprising by the unpaid Continental Army at Newburgh, New York that would, but for George Washington's restraint, have overthrown the Continental Congress and sent the American Revolution down the path of its bloody, violent French counterpart. Or the "Radical Republican" plot at the end of the Civil War that came within one Senate impeachment trial vote of toppling constitutional government and installing Lincoln/Johnson War Secretary Edwin Stanton as de facto ruler.
Let's settle for a far more contemporary example of narrowly-missed dictatorship: Al Gore's attempted coup d' etat against the duly and legally elected President of the United States, George W. Bush, in December of 2000. That, too, was averted by a single vote, in this instance on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The next one, in case that Cruella Devillian old hag is paying attention, will be after November of 2008 if her fellow dragon Hillary! Rodham is "elected" to the presidency. There won't be any elections after that; Boxer and her fellow travelers will see to that.
Funny how she warns of "dictatorship" while she and her comrades never seem to have met a foreign tinpot they didn't swoon over. They looooove Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez; Crazy Nancy Pelosi played kissy-face with Bashar Assad. Even with Adolph Ahmadinejad they seem to get along swimmingly.
But they call Bush a "dictator".
I guess for left wingnuts, despotism is in the eye of the projector.
***Harry Reid's idea of earmark reform is to generate a crapload more of them than the Republicans ever did, and then bury them down a PR black hole. Proving, once again, that even if by some random mischance the Democrat Party ever does something upright and worthwhile, they'll still be incapable of doing it honestly.
***Yesterday House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (USSR-Michigan) convened a hearing for no other purpose than to sodomize President Bush for nullifying political prisoner Lewis "Scooter" Libby's two and a half year jail sentence. It, as you might have suspected, cut Bill Clinton a blanket pass for his flurry of clemencies and pardons of crooks, rapists, cronies, and terrorists. The production even featured none other than "Yellowcake Joe" Wilson (aka Mr. Plame) himself.
The only noteworthy development to arise from this BS exercise was the call by Donk freshman Stephen Cohen for a constitutional amendment taking away the President's pardon power. But only when a Republican is in office, of course.
***"Snarlin' Arlen" Specter, the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is outraged - OUTRAGED! - that Committee Chairman Pat "Leaky" Leahy screwed him over on the promise Leahy made to Specter to process the nomination of Leslie Southwick to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. He's so pissed that he's actually trying to rally conservative activists to his side.
Cry me a river, Senator. Where have you been as the Dems have tried to smear Judge Southwick as a racist and a homophobe? Playing cloakroom tonsil hockey with your "esteemed colleague" and "good, close, personal friends" on the other side of the aisle.
Specter isn't a righteously indignant constitutionalist, he's a jilted lover in a "mixed" relationship. When conservative activists do heed Specter's call, they should target his ass as well.
***Joe Lieberman is never - EVER - going to switch parties. The chances of him being a Jim Jeffords in reverse are slightly less than Britney Speares enrolling in a convent.
Key comment in his Hugh Hewitt radio program interview:
HH: And if you were to follow the example of Jim Jeffords and cross the aisle, it would end, at least for this Congress, the circus surrounding the defeat by a date certain rules, and all these different bills. Isn’t that enough of an incentive to cross that aisle?
JL: Well, it’s a fair question. My guess is that it wouldn’t change much but the leadership, because the votes would be the same.
But if the leadership changed, these detestable surrender bills wouldn't see the light of day in the first place. Republicans suck at advancing the conservative agenda, but they're at least decent at blocking the other side, particularly on this core of an issue.
Lieberman's answer makes me wonder just how sincere his claim to be Scoop Jackson's political heir really is.
***In an interview on the Ed Schultz Show, whoever the hell he is, Senator Babsy Boxer actually said this:
"This [i.e. the Bush Administration] is as close as we've ever come to a dictatorship"
As a historical illiterate, Boxer probably isn't aware of the post-Revolutionary War near-uprising by the unpaid Continental Army at Newburgh, New York that would, but for George Washington's restraint, have overthrown the Continental Congress and sent the American Revolution down the path of its bloody, violent French counterpart. Or the "Radical Republican" plot at the end of the Civil War that came within one Senate impeachment trial vote of toppling constitutional government and installing Lincoln/Johnson War Secretary Edwin Stanton as de facto ruler.
Let's settle for a far more contemporary example of narrowly-missed dictatorship: Al Gore's attempted coup d' etat against the duly and legally elected President of the United States, George W. Bush, in December of 2000. That, too, was averted by a single vote, in this instance on the U.S. Supreme Court.
The next one, in case that Cruella Devillian old hag is paying attention, will be after November of 2008 if her fellow dragon Hillary! Rodham is "elected" to the presidency. There won't be any elections after that; Boxer and her fellow travelers will see to that.
Funny how she warns of "dictatorship" while she and her comrades never seem to have met a foreign tinpot they didn't swoon over. They looooove Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez; Crazy Nancy Pelosi played kissy-face with Bashar Assad. Even with Adolph Ahmadinejad they seem to get along swimmingly.
But they call Bush a "dictator".
I guess for left wingnuts, despotism is in the eye of the projector.
posted by JASmius at 8:24 PM
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